Bones of the Maya
Title | Bones of the Maya PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen L. Whittington |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2006-08-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817353763 |
Includes an indexed bibliography of the first 150 years of Maya osteology. This volume pulls together a spectrum of bioarchaeologists that reveal remarkable data on Maya genetic relationship, demography, and diseases.
The Memory of Bones
Title | The Memory of Bones PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen D. Houston |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 2013-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0292756186 |
An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions. All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed an approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. Starting with a cartography of the Maya body as depicted in imagery and texts, the authors explore how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.
An Osteology of Some Maya Mammals
Title | An Osteology of Some Maya Mammals PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley John Olsen |
Publisher | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)
The Toe Bone and the Tooth
Title | The Toe Bone and the Tooth PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Prechtel |
Publisher | HarperElement |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A wonderful blend of polemic, autobiography, travel adventure, and myth.
The Ancient Maya
Title | The Ancient Maya PDF eBook |
Author | Jackie Maloy |
Publisher | C. Press/F. Watts Trade |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780531241103 |
Provides information about the ancient Maya, discussing farming, daily life, beliefs, and other related topics.
The Popol Vuh
Title | The Popol Vuh PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Spence |
Publisher | New York : AMS Press |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya
Title | Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Schlesinger |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780292777606 |
A growing interest in all things Maya brings an increasing number of visitors to prehistoric Maya ruins and contemporary Maya communities in Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras, the Yucatán Peninsula, and the southern areas of Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico. For these visitors and indeed everyone with an interest in the Maya, this field guide highlights nearly 100 species of plants and animals that were significant to the ancient Maya and that continue to inhabit the Maya region today. Drawing from the disciplines of biology, ecology, and anthropology, Victoria Schlesinger describes each plant or animal's habitat and natural history, identifying characteristics (also shown in a black-and-white drawing), and cultural significance to the ancient and contemporary Maya. An introductory section explains how to use the book and offers a concise overview of the history, lifeways, and cosmology of the ancient Maya. The concluding section describes the collapse of ancient Maya society and briefly traces the history of the Maya region from colonial times to the present.